Second Opinion

In Second Opinion, United Technologies is close to inking a deal to buy Rockwell Collins for more than $20 billion, Apple and Accenture team up to create better business apps and bitcoin sets a record high by jumping to nearly 70 percent in August.

In Second Opinion, Amazon closes its acquisition of Whole Foods, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan welcome their second daughter August and Hurricane Harvey paralyzes Houston.

In Second Opinion, SoftBank is investing $4.4 billion in office space sharing startup WeWork, Amazon will discount Whole Foods items after its acquisition of the grocery retailer closes and Hurricane Harvey is heading for Texas.

In Second Opinion, Osram is buying U.S. software provider Digital Lumens, Apple could announce its next iPhone on September 12 and Uber has reportedly been sued at least 433 times so far this year.

In Second Opinion, a Barcelona terror attack kills 13 and injures more than 50, Alibaba beats analysts' estimates by posting a first-quarter revenue growth of 56 percent and bitcoin's market value is now beating companies such as Netflix and PayPal.

In Second Opinion, Trump disbands his business councils after exodus of CEOs, a black banker sues Goldman Sachs for racial discrimination and the neo-Nazi site that was booted by GoDaddy and blocked by Google returns online via a Russian domain.

In Second Opinion, Costco is ordered to pay Tiffany & Co over $19 million for selling fake rings using the luxury jeweler's name, Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits to settle an FTC probe and a new report says Obamacare premiums will rise 20 percent next year if subsidies end.

Second Opinion ends the day with news that Google cancels a neo-Nazi site registration after it was dumped by GoDaddy, VF Corp will buy Dickies workwear maker for $820 million and Merck's CEO quits President Trump's manufacturing council after the latter failed to initially denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Second Opinion wraps up the day and week with news that Facebook has acquired a computer vision startup, General Motors accuses its bankruptcy trust of a secret $1 billion stock plot and as many as 160 Applebee's and IHOP locations will be closing.

In Second Opinion, venture firms Innovation Endeavors and Marker merge, Bruce Springsteen is coming to Broadway for a limited run and Target agrees to buy 100 megawatts of wind energy to power 150 stores.